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HeidiAmlund, et al. ; Jojo Tibon; Ana I. Gomez-Delgado; Marc H.G. Berntssen; Marta S. Silva; Martin Wiech; Jens J. Sloth; Veronika Sele; Show all 8 Authors
aquaculture feeds; atomic absorption spectrometry; biomass; carcinogenicity; chemical species; fish; high performance liquid chromatography; ion exchange; oils; risk; risk assessment; sustainable development; water solubility
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... A responsible harvest of mesopelagic species as aquafeed ingredients has the potential to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 14, which calls for sustainable use of marine resources. Prior to utilization, the levels of undesirable substances need to be examined, and earlier studies on mesopelagic species have reported on total arsenic (As) content. However, the total As content ...
... A collaborative study was conducted in order to fully validate the performance characteristics and to evaluate the suitability of a method for determination of iodine in animal feed. The method consists of an alkaline extraction in tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) solution followed by the determination of iodine by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The method was validated ...
... The use of plant-based feeds has introduced undesirables, such as pesticides, that have previously not been associated with seawater farming of fish species such as Atlantic salmon. Earlier wide-scope chemical screening showed that the organophosphate (OP) pirimiphos-methyl (PM-m) is one of the most prevalent pesticides present in commercially produced Atlantic salmon feed. Information on the safe ...
... Organoarsenic species in marine matrices have been studied for many years but knowledge gaps still exist. Most literature focuses on monitoring of arsenic (As) species using previously published methods based on anion- and cation-exchange high-performance liquid chromatography-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (HPLC-ICP-MS). These studies are often limited to few As species and/or only ...
... Aquaculture production is demanding novel feed ingredients that reflect natural marine nutrient levels, that are also essential to humans. In this regard, biofortification through addition of iodine-rich sugar kelp in feed formulations was assessed in a 12 week rainbow trout trial. Yttrium inclusion in feed allowed determinations of apparent absorption coefficients of essential and potentially tox ...
Ascophyllum nodosum; European Union; Hermetia illucens; Salmo salar; arsenic; bioavailability; diet; dioxins; fish; fish feeds; fish fillets; fish meal; food safety; heavy metals; ingredients; insects; larvae; lipids; macroalgae; mycotoxins; oils; pesticides
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... Insects are promising sources of protein and lipid in feeds for farmed animals. In the European Union, the use of insect meal (IM) and insect oil is permitted in fish feed. However, the European Food Safety Authority has highlighted the lack of data regarding the chemical safety of insects and products thereof. In this study, Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) were fed diets in which fish meal (FM) was ...
HeidiAmlund, et al. ; Marta S. Silva; Saskia Kröckel; P. Antony Jesu Prabhu; Wolfgang Koppe; Robin Ørnsrud; Rune Waagbø; Pedro Araujo; Show all 8 Authors
... The composition of salmonid diets has changed from the use of mainly marine ingredients to increased use of plant ingredients, and this has an impact on the mineral content and availability. Minerals, like zinc (Zn), selenium (Se) and manganese (Mn), are supplemented to diets as inorganic or organic forms to cover the nutritional requirements of fish. This study compared the apparent availability ...
Gadus morhua; Hippoglossus hippoglossus; Salmo salar; chitin; correlation; diet; digestibility; feed conversion; lipids; liver; salmon; shrimp; specific growth rate
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... The effect of adding 0%, 1%, 2% and 5% chitin from prawn shells in the diets for Atlantic cod, Atlantic halibut and Atlantic salmon on growth was investigated. Nutrient digestibility and feed utilization was investigated in salmon and cod. Atlantic cod grew from 186 ± 29 to 383 ± 78 g (N = 960) over 13 weeks. Dietary chitin had no effect on length, weight, condition, liver size or specific growth ...
HeidiAmlund, et al. ; Borja Garlito; María Ibáñez; Tania Portolés; Roque Serrano; Anne-Katrine Lundebye; Monica Sanden; Marc H. G. Berntssen; Félix Hernández; Show all 9 Authors
Danio rerio; Salmo salar; aquaculture feeds; bile; chlorpyrifos-methyl; fish culture; fish meal; fish oils; food production; ingredients; kidneys; liquid chromatography; liver; metabolites; muscles; pirimiphos-methyl; salmon; tandem mass spectrometry; water
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... The composition of Atlantic salmon feed has changed considerably over the last two decades from being marine-based (fishmeal and fish oil) to mainly containing plant ingredients. Consequently, concern related to traditional persistent contaminants typically associated with fish-based feed has been replaced by other potential contaminants not previously associated with salmon farming. This is the c ...
HeidiAmlund, et al. ; P. Antony Jesu Prabhu; Marta S. Silva; Saskia Kröeckel; May-Helen Holme; Robin Ørnsrud; Erik-Jan Lock; Rune Waagbø; Show all 8 Authors
... The impact of dietary manganese (Mn) levels and sources on the growth and mineral composition of post-smolt Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) fed practical diets was studied. Seven experimental diets were prepared with graded supplementation level of Mn; basal diet had a Mn concentration of 15 mg kg⁻¹, four diets with 5, 15, 35 and 65 mg kg⁻¹ supplementation of Mn as MnSO₄ and two diets with at 5 and ...
... High concentrations of cadmium in brown crab are an issue of food safety, and large variations between different areas have been found. To investigate the relative importance of dietary and aqueous uptake regarding the overall accumulation in brown crab, we used stable isotopes to trace the uptake from both routes simultaneously in the same animals. We demonstrated that the analytical challenges r ...
HeidiAmlund, et al. ; Irene Biancarosa; Ikram Belghit; Christian G Bruckner; Nina S Liland; Rune Waagbø; Svenja Heesch; Erik‐Jan Lock; Show all 8 Authors
Chlorophyta; European Union; animal nutrition; arsenic; biofuels; chemical composition; drugs; food law; harvesting; heavy metals; human nutrition; macroalgae; nutrients; Norway
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... BACKGROUND: In the past few years, much effort has been invested into developing a new blue economy based on harvesting, cultivating and processing marine macroalgae in Norway. Macroalgae have high potential for a wide range of applications, e.g. as source of pharmaceuticals, production of biofuels or as food and feed. However, data on the chemical composition of macroalgae from Norwegian waters a ...
HeidiAmlund, et al. ; Irene Biancarosa; Nina S Liland; Daan Biemans; Pedro Araujo; Christian G Bruckner; Rune Waagbø; Bente E Torstensen; Erik‐Jan Lock; Show all 9 Authors
European Union; Hermetia illucens; arsenic; cadmium; feeds; food safety; heavy metals; insect larvae; insects; lead; macroalgae; mercury
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... BACKGROUND: The black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) is one of the most promising insect species for use in animal feed. However, studies investigating feed and food safety aspects of using black soldier fly as feed are scarce. In this study, we fed black soldier fly larvae feeding media enriched with seaweed, which contains naturally high concentrations of heavy metals and arsenic. The aim of th ...
... Methylmercury (MeHg) is a toxicant of concern for aquatic food chains. In the present study, the assimilation and depuration of dietary MeHg and the influence of dietary selenium on MeHg toxicokinetics was characterised in zebrafish (Danio rerio).In a triplicate tank experimental design (n=3 tanks per treatment group), adult zebrafish were exposed to dietary MeHg (as methylmercury-cysteine) at 5 a ...
... Selenium (Se) and its derivatives are known to have protective effects against mercury (Hg) toxicity in mammals. In this study we wanted to evaluate whether Se co-exposure affect the transcription of methylmercury (MeHg) toxicity-relevant genes in early life stages of fish. Juvenile Atlantic cod were exposed to regular feed (control), Se-spiked feed (3mg Sekg−1), MeHg-spiked feed (10mg Hgkg−1) or ...
... The interaction between methylmercury (MeHg) and marine fatty acids is of great interest in risk benefit assessments, and is increasingly important also in fish nutrition when fish oil is replaced with vegetable oils. To assess the effects of replacing fish oil (high dietary n−3/n−6 ratio) by soybean oil (low dietary n−3/n−6 ratio) in combination with MeHg, Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) were fe ...
... This experiment aimed to study the molecular toxicity of methylmercury (MeHg) in liver, brain and white muscle of Atlantic salmon fed a diet based on fish oil (FO, high dietary n−3/n−6 ratio) compared to an alternative diet mainly based on vegetable oil (VO, low dietary n−3/n−6 ratio). Juvenile salmon were fed decontaminated diets or the FO and VO diets enriched with 5mgHg/kg (added as MeHg) for t ...
arsenic; atomic absorption spectrometry; calibration; fatty acids; fish; fish oils; germanium; hydrocarbons; indium; isotopes; liver; marine environment; mass spectrometry; reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography; seals
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... Arsenolipids are the major arsenic species present in marine oils. Several structures of arsenolipids have been elucidated the last 5 years, demonstrating the chemical complexity of this trace element in the marine environment. Several commercial fish oils and marine oils, ranging in total arsenic concentrations from 1.6 to 12.5mgkg⁻¹ oil, were analyzed for arsenolipids using reversed-phase high p ...
Ammodytes; Clupea harengus; Engraulis ringens; Gadus morhua; Micromesistius poutassou; Pollachius virens; anchovies; arsenic; chemical structure; cod (fish); decontamination; eel; fish oils; gas chromatography; hydrocarbons; microwave treatment; persistent organic pollutants; sand; solid phase extraction; tandem mass spectrometry; wet digestion method; whiting
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... The present study describes the use of a simple solid-phase extraction procedure for the extraction of arsenic-containing hydrocarbons from fish oil followed by analysis using gas chromatography (GC) coupled to inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICPMS). The procedure permitted the analysis of a small sample amount, and the method was applied on a range of different commercial fish oils, ...
... Numerous studies have focused on arsenic in marine organisms, and relatively high natural levels of the element have been reported in marine samples. Despite their seemingly consistent presence in marine oils and fats, there is currently only limited knowledge available on arsenic compounds that exhibit lipid soluble characteristics, the arsenolipids, in contrast to the water-soluble arsenic speci ...